Backlash: Drag Queen Story Hour proves detrimental to libraries seeking increased funding

PETITION: Tell U.S. libraries to stop pushing 'drag queens' on our kids! Sign the petition here. SPOKANE, Washington, July 31, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Public libraries in Washington state are distancing themselves from a recent Drag Queen Story Hour event which has library officials concerned that taxpayers will turn against increased funding for their jurisdiction’s library system.  A Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) held at a library in the City of Spokane, Washington in June attracted national attention as 200 protestors were met with extreme measures by local law enforcement, with snipers stationed atop the library roof to keep peaceful protesting moms […]
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The awesome story of how this mom of 4 founded the largest pro-life group in N. Ireland

This week’s episode of The Van Maren Show gives us a deep look into the pro-life movement in Northern Ireland as it stands right now, and what the possibilities are moving forward. Jonathon Van Maren has an amazing conversation with Bernadette Smyth, founder of the largest pro-life group in Northern Ireland, Precious Life. She also founded Youth for Life, which is a project of Precious Life, whose aim is to equip the next generation with the skills needed to keep abortion illegal in Northern Ireland. Smyth shares with listeners how she got into the pro-life movement and then dives deep […]
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Are the end-times predicted in the Scriptures upon us? – Part 2 of 2

Michael O’Brien is a Catholic novelist, author, painter, and speaker. He is the author of the best-selling book Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, which has been translated into many languages. On this part 2 of a two-part episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, he explains how hell isn't empty and speaks about the end-times. He also shares what gives him hope amid the massive confusion in the Church and the role of Mary in salvation history.
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Pew report: Only half of America’s Catholics know what the Church teaches about Communion 

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) ― Do only half of America’s Catholics know what their Church teaches about Holy Communion?  In a recent report called “What Americans Know About Religion,” the Pew Research Center suggested that Catholics are divided in their understanding of Holy Communion.  According to Pew Forum, where the research company gave an overview of its findings, 50 percent of Catholics correctly answered the question, “Which of the following best describes Catholic teaching about the bread and wine used for Communion?” The two options were “Actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ” and “Are symbols […]
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Episode 27: Exposing the fraudulent research that sparked the sexual revolution

In this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Judith Reisman, a research professor at Liberty University School of Law and Director of the Child Protection Institute. Dr. Reisman is a giant in the science and sexology community with many accolades and accomplishments. Today, he speaks with Reisman about her pioneering work in exposing the fraudulent sex ‘research’ work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey. For those unfamiliar, Dr. Kinsley’s science played a role in bringing the sexual revolution to America, in modern LGBT laws, inflated LGBT propaganda statistics, and in a way responsible for the […]
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Mass apostasy, doctrinal confusion sure signs of anti-Christ – Part 1 of 2

Michael O’Brien is a Catholic novelist, author, painter, and speaker. He is the author of the best-selling book Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, which has been translated into many languages. On this part 1 of a two-part episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, he talks with me about the mass apostasy in the Church, the anti-Christ, and why so many Catholics are falling away from the faith.
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Texas governor signs ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill protecting religious businesses from discrimination

AUSTIN, Texas, July 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a new law barring the state or local governments from acting against businesses on the basis of the owners’ religious beliefs, sending a message to the City of San Antonio and others who have all-but declared war on companies such as Chick-fil-A. Senate Bill 1978 forbids any branch or agency of the Texas government, as well as lower jurisdictions, from taking any “adverse action” pertaining to any “grant, contract, subcontract, cooperative agreement, loan, scholarship, license, registration, accreditation, employment, or other similar status” on the basis of someone’s […]
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Italian hospital offers help to 5-year-old girl who UK doctors want to unplug from life support

GENOA, Italy, July 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – An Italian hospital has offered to treat a little girl who suffered a sudden stroke and is now fighting for her life against doctors who have taken legal steps to remove her from life support and let her die.  According to Italian news site Genova 24, the Giannina Gaslini Institute, a world-renowned children’s hospital in Genoa, has confirmed that it received a request at the end of June from the parents of five-year-old Tafida Raqueeb for a “second opinion” regarding her condition.  Tafida suffered a ruptured blood vessel in February 2019, and is […]
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Episode 26: Ex-porn star reveals the evils behind the scenes of the porn industry

WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT NOT SUITED FOR CHILDREN.  In this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, former porn star Deanna Spangler shares how she rose to fame in the pornography industry and why she finally got out. Van Maren and Spangler speak about her difficult childhood, which included her parents introducing her to pornography when she was just six years old. Spangler explains that after her early exposure to pornography and the death of her mother when she was 10, she began engaging in prostitution. She easily slid into pornography from there, she tells Van Maren. They […]
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Episode 25: How the pre-Roe pro-life movement destroys current pro-choice arguments

Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Daniel K. Williams, author of two books published by the Oxford University Press. The first, “God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right” and also, “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade.” This week’s episode of The Van Maren Show and the second book are absolutely filled with information that everyone in the pro-life movement needs to know about.   There is a broad understanding that the pro-life movement was simply a reactionary movement to Roe v. Wade being legalized in the United States in 1973. In reality, this […]
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Episode 24: This pro-life warrior is changing the culture by focusing on the value of the human person

Jonathon Van Maren discusses the pro-life movement with Jason Jones on this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Jones began working in the pro-life movement while attending the University of Hawaii. His work within the movement progressed from forming the Pro-Life Student Union to include Director of Hawaii Right to Life and Public Relations Director for Human Life International. He is the president and founder of HumanRights Education Organization and Movie to Movement; both organizations promote the dignity and beauty of the human person.
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Professor Roberto de Mattei explains the crisis in the Church – Part 2 of 2

On this edition of the John-Henry Westen show we are pleased to bring you the second in a two-part interview with Professor Roberto de Mattei. Described as the greatest historian on the Catholic Church alive today, Professor de Mattei explains how Catholics must respond to the crisis in the Church. “A respectful resistance” is what Catholics need to have at this time in Church history, he argues. Now “is a time for speaking” and to have a “militant spirit” filled with prayer and example.
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Pope’s letter to Germans on ‘synodal path’ is open to many interpretations

July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – On Saturday, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the German Bishops' Conference published a 19-page letter written by Pope Francis, in which he touches upon matters such as evangelization, synodality, and conversion in light of the German “synodal path” as it is currently being set up. The letter is not addressed to the German bishops, as is usually the case, but to the “pilgrim people of God in Germany.”  However, since Pope Francis wrote in a more general manner and chose not to mention any specific topics of the new “synodal path” – such […]
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